The Christmas Elf Fairy, designed by Mirabilia. Dubbed Chrissy at some point while I was still working on her dress.

Started March 2008 in Dallas, TX. Finished 11-17-2010. Spent waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time languishing in a box somewhere.

Lots of changes made to this one. First off, this was at least the second iteration out of a kit (originally belonged to Michelle, we swapped after I finished the Halloween fairy), so I didn’t have the fabric used on the model. I like my sparkly white, although now I kind of wish I’d had sparkly ice blue so the white of her ermine showed better. Ah well. I also had to replenish some of the fibers and did not like the available dye lots on the reds that needed refilling, so I ended up swapping some of those out for DMC in frustration. Finally, Wisper absolutely hates me so I used plain white DMC instead in those spots.

I had an interview yesterday with an attorney in a nearby suburb. The job sounds great, he sounds like he’s interested in me, but he’s not planning to have someone start until after tax season. The office is very sterile, and that concerns me because I work much better with music and he does not like having music playing in the office (I asked because of how bare people’s desks are). I’ll take it if offered and I’m still available.

I then had a phone interview today – yes, on Saturday – for a work-from-home typing opportunity for an attorney downtown. He’s temporarily displaced from his office because of an environmental issue, and his assistant recently relocated to another state. So there’s a possibility of an office position once things get settled down in the building. It almost sounds like I’ve got the work-from-home portion clinched, at least, but I’m not counting on it because that’s just the way things seem to go for me.

I also have a potential interview for next week with yet another office. The coordinator at the staffing agency called on Friday to feel out my interest level, she’s trying to get more info and has my availability so she can go ahead and schedule the interview for me without further delay.

And I’m stitching! I spent a little time on the Christmas Fairy while at my parents’ house last week, plus a couple hours today on Autumn’s Sunset Sampler while playing an online game with my father.

The import old posts project is on hold at the moment, mostly just because I had other things that were grabbing my attention. I’ll get back to that sooner or later.

And odd, I’m now seeing an RSS error on my dashboard… “XML Error, out of memory at line 1, column 0″. Make any sense to anyone?